People v. Valentin

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (O’Brien, J.), rendered October 5, 1989, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

In order to sustain the finding of guilt against the defendant for criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, "it must appear that the jurors could properly draw an inference from the evidence presented that the defendant acted with the mental culpability necessary to commit the crime charged and that…